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  • Last First Time (The)
  • Sylvia Robyn
  • Sorry, Baby
  • Reset
  • Ramón y Ramón
  • President's Wife (The)
  • Inside
  • Ten Pound Poms
  • Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot (A)
  • Fuori
  • No Way Up
  • Queens of Joy
  • I Don't Understand You
  • Croma
  • Day Iceland Stood Still (The)
  • Reunion
  • Maydegol
  • Stray Bodies
  • Ponyboi
  • Duino
  • Sex in the Soviet Union
  • Invasión
  • Edhi & Alice
  • Familiar Places
  • Assembly
  • Mid-Century Modern
  • My Boyfriend the Fascist
  • All for One
  • Accidental Friends
  • My Boyfriend Is a Sex Worker
  • Museum of the Night
  • Nina & Emma
  • Residence (The)
  • ¡Quba!
  • Cherri
  • Lilies Not for Me
  • She's the He
  • Newborn
  • Klandestin WT
  • Compatriots (The)

Track Two

Country: Canada, Language: English, 88 mins

  • Director: Harry Sutherland
  • Producer: Gord Keith; Harry Sutherland

CGiii Comment

A fantastic example of how gay history is skewed...and, hi-jacked.

This is about bath-houses...an exclusive domain of gay men...yet, the first person to talk in this film is a lesbian 'spokeperson'...

It also serves as a reminder...of how offensive the word 'queer' is (and will always be)...who 'reclaimed' this word?!? Was feminism not enough?

Lesbians never experienced the same hate and criminality as gay men did/do...they were not called 'queer' in the schoolyards.

The younger generation should watch this - those that identify as 'queer' because they were told to by those who were never called 'queer'....

Angry...you bet.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Documentary on the growth of Toronto's gay community including positive developments as well as the infamous 'Operation Soap' where the Toronto Police raided gay bath houses, and the subsequent protests.

Cast & Characters

John Bart;
Christine Bearchall;
Arnold Bruner;
Gerald Hannon;
Brent Hawkes;
George Hislop;
Susan Huycke as Narrator;
Ken Popert;
John Sewell